Cricket: Melbourne and Sydney Tests will stay all-day

Adelaide: The now-ritual sea of pink at the SCG will not extend to a pink ball, with Cricket Australia confirming it has no plans to confirm either the New Year's Test or the Boxing Day Test to a day-night match.

Shane Warne's pitch for this year's MCG Test to be played under floodlights with a pink ball, to counteract the lack of interest in the West Indies' team, was dismissed by Cricket Australia's James Sutherland.

The chief executive also reiterated that CA's willingness to extend day-night Tests beyond Adelaide did not extend to Sydney or Melbourne.

"I don't think there's any compelling case for it. There's nothing broken about those two Test matches," Sutherland said on Melbourne radio station 3AW.

"I think in the forseeable future it's not really likely. There's nothing wrong with Boxing Day. It's held at a time where everyone is on holiday."

Day three of the SCG Test is widely known as Jane McGrath Day, at which spectators are encouraged to wear pink as part of fundraising for breast-cancer research and treatment, for a cause spearheaded by former Test great Glenn McGrath after his late first wife.

While discounting the prospects of day-night Tests in Sydney or Melbourne – or Perth, due to its three-hour time difference to the eastern states – Sutherland said CA would consider hosting Tests under lights at Brisbane's Gabba and Hobart's Blundstone Arena, probably in addition to more in Adelaide.

Big bash League broadcaster Channel Ten said it was largely supportive of any plan to increase the frequency of day-night Tests, but would resist that being extended to the Melbourne and Sydney Test which overlap the BBL.